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Install the Windows Deployment Services Console on Vista

Installing the Windows Deployment Services MMC on Windows Vista is a simple process:

1. Copy these files from a Windows Server 2003 (or Windows Longhorn Server) running WDS to the \Windows\SYSTEM32 folder on your Windows Vista machine:

  • wdsmmc.dll
  • wdsmgmt.dll
  • wdsimage.dll
  • wdscsl.dll
  • WdsMgmt.msc

2. Copy this file from a Windows Server 2003 (or Windows Longhorn Server) running WDS to the \Windows\SYSTEM32\en-US folder on your Windows Vista machine:

  • wdsmmc.dll.mui

3. Register each DLL file on the Vista machine with REGSVR32:

REGSVR32 C:\Windows\System32\wdsmmc.dll
REGSVR32 C:\Windows\System32\wdsmgmt.dll
REGSVR32 C:\Windows\System32\wdsimage.dll
REGSVR32 C:\Windows\System32\wdscsl.dll

Add the Windows Deployment Services snap-in to a custom MMC console or run WdsMgmt.msc if you copied that file from the source machine.

Comments closed — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Wednesday, February 28, 2007, at 9:23 pm by Aaron Parker. Filed in Deployment and tagged .